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29 Cards in this Set
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Admonish
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To Scold Mildly
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Berate, rebuke, reprimand
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Apprehend
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To take into custody; to take hold of mentally; percieve, understand
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Arrest, Capture, Seize
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Benign
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Doing little or no harm; not malignant
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Genial, Merciful, Obliging
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Callous
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Lacking pity or mercy; unfeeling
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Hardhearted, impeninent
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Eccentric
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Deviating from the normal
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Odd, unconventional
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Erratic
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Having no fixed course or purpose; irregular, random
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Incalculable, uncertain, Vagarious
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Exorbitant
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Going beyond what is reasonable; excessive, extravagant
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Absonant, preposterous, unconscionable
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Flounder
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To struggle to move or obtain footing; To move clumsily or ineffectively
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Walter Cunningham floundered after the beating from scout at the playground
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Gluttonous
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Describing someone who greedily eats too much
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Devouring, edacious, voracious
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Illusory
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Deceptive; not real
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Chimerical, Ostensible, Semblant
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Succinct
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Concise; to the point
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Breviloquent, laconic, pithy
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Venerate
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To revere or to respect
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Admire, extol, laud
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Virtuous
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Pure; honorable
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Chaste, exemplary, inculpable
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Autocrat
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A ruler with abosolute power; dictator
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Absolutist, despot, tyrant
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Cryptic
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Having a hidden or ambiguous
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Ambiguous meaning
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Emaciated
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Very thin
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Attenuated, cadaverous, haggard
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Eulogy
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Spoken or written praise, especially of the recently deceased
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Exaltation, glorification
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Blithe
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Joyful
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Jocund, mirthful, vivacious
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Allege
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To declare; assert without proof
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Avow, depose, recount
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Precarious
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Uncertain; insecure
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Succulent
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Full of Juice; Juicy
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Luscious, Pulpy, Saturated
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Vigilant
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Staying watchful and alert to danger or trouble
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Acute, Observant, wakeful
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Supple
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Easily bent or twisted; flexible, pliant
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Lissome, resilient, svelte
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Vindictive
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Revengeful in spirit; inclined to seek vengeance
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Avenging, Cruel, Grim
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Ambiguous
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Having two or more possible meanings; not clear
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Halle's ambiguous smirk did nothing to help
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Avow
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To state openly; announce
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In her first week, the principal avowed that she should change the lightbulbs
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Dilate
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To widen
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As it got darker, the pupils of Georges eyes dilated to absorb as much light as possible
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Brazen
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Showing no shame; bold
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Audacious, Contumelious, unabashed
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Fawn
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To behave in a servile manner; to flatter excessively
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Flatter, grovel, slaver
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